The story goes that rival ironmaster Richard Crawshay wagered 500 guineas with Richard Trevithick's boss Homfray that he couldn't make an engine to pull a load along the rail line, only for Trevithick's 'Penydarren' locomotive to prove him wrong.

He learned that the 18th century inn was apparently the home of one Samuel Nutt, an ironmaster from Coventry, England, who arrived in Chester County in 1717 and was shown iron mines by some friendly native Indians.

THE graceful Victorianera Penarth Pier, grand Dyffryn House and Gardens plus Cyfarthfa Castle, the splendid former home of the Crawshay ironmaster family, are all in the running to be named Wales' number one "special place".

This is particularly important at a time when the House of Commons is packed with political pygmies who most people wouldn't trust as far as they could throw them (unless it was in seeking advice on how to claim expenses), unlike the days when the House of Commons was occupied by political giants from the Midlands like radical Joe Chamberlain,the uncrowned King of Birmingham, and Stanley Baldwin,the ironmaster from Bewdley and thrice elected Prime Minister.

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